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Politics & Policy Social & Emotional Development

04/04/18

I first heard Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speak in person on April 19, 1960 at Spelman College’s Sisters Chapel during my senior year in college. Dr. King was just 31 but he had already gained a national reputation during the successful Montgomery Bus Boycott five years earlier. The profound impact...

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Marian Wright Edelman

Families & The Federal Budget Politics & Policy Realistic & Fair Wages

04/04/18

We have to be the agents of the kind of change that strengthens our nation by including all our people in the opportunities for progress. Dr. King knew that, striving to bring together sanitation workers, laborers, farm workers, the labor movement, young people, and people of faith and conscience to call upon government to tear down the legal and economic barriers to full participation.

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Debbie Weinstein

Paid Family Leave

04/03/18

Over the past several years the conversation about paid leave has launched to new heights. National attention is evident by the more than 300 articles on paid leave surfacing daily. Public policy is also picking up speed with five states and the District of Columbia passing legislation for paid...

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Angela Romei

Gun Safety Maternal Justice MomsRising

04/03/18

It’s been two weeks since Stephon Clark, a father of two, was killed by Sacramento police officers. Unarmed, in his grandmother’s backyard, Stephon was shot twenty times most of which were from the back. Yet again, another senseless killing of a man at the hands of those sworn to protect them. His...

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Diarra Diouf

Tune In!

Family Economic Security Gun Safety Immigration Maternal Justice Podcast

04/02/18

On the radio show this week we cover the latest in the fight for fair treatment of all immigrant families; we hear how some countries have ended mass incarceration by legalizing drugs — and what we could do here; we get the inside scoop on corporations like Starbucks reaching for pay parity; and we...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Social & Emotional Development

03/30/18

Not even one month has passed since Academy Awards were handed out for films like "Get Out" (Best Original Screenplay), "A Fantasic Woman" (Best Foreign Film), and "The Silent Child" (Best Live-Action Short). Each one of these films, and many of the other nominees, are showing Hollywood that...

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Justine Hebron

Immigration Maternal Justice

03/30/18

In another shocking move designed to terrorize the immigrant community, the Trump administration announced yesterday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will detain many more pregnant women who are awaiting deportation proceedings in court. This move is cruel, inhumane and absolutely...

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Maternal Justice

03/30/18

A conversation between ACLU and MomsRising. Women and Mass Incarceration #MaternalJustice

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Tasmiha Khan

Gun Safety Immigration Maternal Justice MomsVote Paid Family Leave

03/30/18

With the student leaders’ call to VOTE, VOTE, VOTE still ringing in our ears, MomsRising is gearing up to make sure as many people as possible heed that call. Through our #MomsVote program, we're getting ready to get out the vote — including making sure as many people as possible are registered and...

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Karen Showalter

Gun Safety Politics & Policy

03/30/18

In the spring of 1960, I was a senior at Spelman College in Atlanta and decided to help organize the civil rights student sit-in movement to desegregate lunch counters. I went to Atlanta’s City Hall to engage in our cause to end racial apartheid. I felt overwhelming gratitude for the chance to be...

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Marian Wright Edelman